The Axel Springer Award is an annual award given to outstanding personalities who are "exceptionally innovative, create new markets and change markets, shape culture, and face up to their social responsibility". The award, which does not involve a cash prize, was presented for the first time in 2016. The award winners are selected by the Executive Board of the publishing house

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Laureates

* 2016:

Mark Zuckerberg Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling sharehold ...

* 2017: Timothy Berners-Lee * 2018:

Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( ;; and Robinson (2010), p. 7. ; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and clou ...

* 2019:

Shoshana Zuboff Shoshana Zuboff (born November 18, 1951) is an American author, professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar. Zuboff is the author of the books ''In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power'' and ''The Support Econ ...

* 2020:

Elon Musk Elon Reeve Musk ( ; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman. He is known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk has been considered the wealthiest person in th ...

* 2021:

Uğur Şahin Uğur Şahin (; born 19 September 1965) is a German oncologist, immunologist, entrepreneur, and billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, which developed the world’s first mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19.He also ...

and

Özlem Türeci Özlem Türeci (; born 6 March 1967) is a German physician, scientist and entrepreneur. In 2008, she co-founded the biotechnology company BioNTech, which in 2020 developed the first messenger RNA-based vaccine approved for use against Coronavir ...

* 2022:

Volodymyr Zelenskyy Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukraini ...

* 2023:

Satya Nadella Satya Narayana Nadella (; born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-born American business executive who is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. B ...

References

External links

* {{official, https://axel-springer-award.com/ Axel Springer Award Awards established in 2016 2016 establishments in Germany